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The all-time attendance record of 115,300 was set at a preseason game between the defending champions Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers on March 29, 2008, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to the National Baseball Hall of Fame , this is the only baseball game where the 100,000 figure has been definitively exceeded.
Like the Yankees and Cardinals, the Dodgers have not lost 100 games in a season since World War I, with their worst record being in 1992 with 63 wins and 99 losses. The following year, the Dodgers finished at .500 for the only time in 141 seasons. The most wins the Dodgers ever had in a season was 111, which they did in 2022.
Following the team's relocation to California, attendance had gone from eleventh during their final season in Brooklyn to second in their first season in Los Angeles. [83] Initially during construction of Dodger Stadium, Walter O'Malley feared the size of the ballpark would prove to be too difficult to fill on a regular basis once completed in ...
The 2023 Los Angeles Dodgers season was the 134th season for the Los Angeles Dodgers franchise in Major League Baseball, their 66th season in Los Angeles, California, and their 61st season playing their home games at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers drew an average home attendance of 47,371 in 81 home games in the 2023 MLB season, the highest in the ...
Major League Baseball attendance topped 70 million for the first time in six years. The total and average were the highest since MLB drew 72.67 million in 2017 for an average of 30,042. MLB set ...
In 1959, the season ended in a tie between the Dodgers and the Milwaukee Braves.The Dodgers won the tie-breaking playoff. 1959 also saw a team other than the Yankees win the A.L. pennant, one of only two such years in the 16-year stretch from 1949 through 1964, and because of the Dodgers' move to Los Angeles, this resulted in the first World Series since 1948 to have no games in New York City.
Six months later, the Los Angeles Dodgers played their first ever game, beating the San Francisco Giants 6-5 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. ... becoming the first player with a 50/50 season ...
The Dodgers won in six games to earn the second championship in their history and their first since moving to Los Angeles from Brooklyn the season before. Each of the three games played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum drew record crowds, Game 5's attendance of 92,706 continues to be a World Series record to this day, and one that cannot ...